1. 7 Girls Got Issues: The Importance of Gender- Responsive Treatment in Working with Girls

2. Objectives

3. Why Gender-Specific Treatment?

4. Why Girls Need Gender- Competent Programs For Boys Focus on rules Offer ways to advance thru structured system For Girls Focus on relationships with other people Offer ways to master their lives while keeping these relationships intact

5. Note:

6. Mental Illness and Girls

8. Mental Health by Gender

11. Issues in working with girls

12. SAMHSA Assertions about working with girls

13. Biological/physiological

14. Societal gender-role expectations

16. Experience with trauma

18. Prevalence Rates 18

22. Special Populations

23. SAMHSA

24. Cultural identity and impact on girlhood

25. Areas of competency needed (SAMHSA)

26. What is Gender- Responsive Treatment

27. What does GRT do?

28. Theory underlying GRT

29. Strengths-Based

30. Resiliency

33. Increasing strengths- based

35. Relational

37. Relational-Cultural Theory (Jean Baker Miller)

38. Gilligan & Mikel Brown

39. Building healthy alliance

40. Need to

41. Demonstrate

42. Promote healthy connections

43. Safety

44. Evidence-Based

45. Promising Curricula (Per OJJDP)

46. Other Options

47. BUT…

48. Remember

49. Must

51. Contact Information